Which Image Editor is the best option for you? Welcome to the digital age, an age that has embraced technology as part of our daily lives. For most of us, we interact with something digital as if it is one of our limbs. On top of this, we have become overwhelmed in a world of Photography, every social platform needs a good profile picture, an adjustment or two and a filter before the upload can even be considered. Our Smartphones and their yearly improvements have allowed the average person to become photographers, documenting everything from their daily tasks to beauty hidden in this blue pl ..read more

Free transform is a very unique and versatile tool in Photoshop that comes in very handy, especially with photo manipulations. Its one little function that can do several things to your images and cut outs. Activating free transform Free transform works on layers, individually. To activate free transform, select the layer from the layer panel and press ctrl+t on the keyboard. You will see that a border has appeared on your layer. Right click on the image and you will see several options there. Let’s understand what these options are meant for. Scale This is activated by default, the moment y ..read more

Photo manipulation is a completely different subject in itself. It’s somewhere between digital art and photography. It involves photographs, but it also involves a lot of creative thinking and a lot of editing in software like Photoshop. I fought Po! So, we will take these images. And try to combine them all in Photoshop to form this image. Looks fun, right? Well, it’s a lot more fun to actually make this in Photoshop. Let’s see how to do it. Things you will need An action figure. Here, I used Po, the Kung-Fu Panda. Why? Because the outline of Po is really simple which makes it easier to cut ..read more

Histogram is something which even most of the “professional” photographers have no clue about. They see a graph at the corner of the screen and ignore it. Photography is basically, photo-graphy. Photo meaning light, graph meaning data. A histogram is a graphical representation of data captured in an image in the form of light. To understand histograms, we first need to understand pixels. Pixels Every image that you see on a screen is composed of very tiny squares which are not visible to the naked eye. These squares of different shades and colours merge when they are placed together on a large ..read more

This is one of the oldest and the earliest trick anyone ever came up with in Photoshop. Selective colouring is where a particular object or region in a black and white picture is left to retain its colour. It’s a very neat technique and helps you bring in focus a particular point in an image. We will be using the layer masking technique in Photoshop to do this. Layer masking I have already given a detailed explanation of layer masking in my previous blog. To recap, layer masking is the technique of layering one image over the other and then tearing through the image in the top layer and revea ..read more

One evening, when I was lying on the bed with my laptop and camera bag next to me; editing some of my photos; and boom! This happens! Houston, we have a problem. Levitation Photography You may have not heard of the terminology, but you must have definitely seen some stunning levitation photography on the internet. In levitation pictures, everything seems to be defying gravity. The model is floating, the objects around are floating and everything is floating. Levitation photography is a simple concept of layer masking in Photoshop. To break it down in simple terms, a picture of the scene is t ..read more

Have you always been scared of increasing the ISO on your camera in dim light because of the resulting noise in the images? Has this discouraged you from taking pictures in low light? Fret not. This tutorial will take care of all your ISO noise anxieties and will let you go trigger happy during night shoots. Noise reduction in Photoshop Open the image on which you need to reduce the noise. If you see the image panel, you’ll notice that the image will be opened as a background layer. Create a duplicate of the background layer (just in case). Having selected the duplicate layer go to filter ..read more

If there’s one thing that is a lot more captivating than a great picture, yet not as cumbersome as a video, then it’s a Graphics Interchange Format, popularly referred to as GIF. The number of colour tones are limited to 256 in this format. However, the ability to add motion to images more than compensates for its low quality. Being visually more captivating, GIF files are especially used by online marketers to showcase their ideas, products and services. GIFs make it easier to express and instantly make an emotional connection with the audience as they are small in size, load faster and most ..read more

When it comes to moon photography, people instantly think of large telephoto lenses. But if you have something low-end like a 55-200mm lens, it shouldn’t stop you from trying out moon photography. Yes, big lenses with big zoom capabilities and big apertures are handy for long-range shots, but they are also big on the price. For taking pictures of the moon, you actually don’t need a big aperture lens because You don’t need shallow depth of field. DOF is irrelevant for any illuminating object which is sitting in dark space. When the object itself is illuminating light and you want to get the tex ..read more

For anyone getting started with Photoshop, the pen tool can seem to be very intimidating. This is because most users feel a pen tool, like a normal pen, should draw lines in Photoshop as you drag it across the canvas. Yes, the pen tool can do that, but in a different way. And by different, I mean accurate. Mechanics of the pen tool A pen tool is different from any other drawing tool. It is specifically designed to help you draw the exact kind of curves which you want to. It takes a bit of patience in the beginning to get a hang of it but trust me, it’s worth it. Pen tool is all about placing t ..read more